This year’s DCASE Workshop was in Tokyo, finally, after the pandemic gave us an online version of it in 2020. By now the workshop is larger, so it was a two-and-a-half-days affair punctuated with great keynotes, lots of interesting papers, and nicely long lunch and coffee breaks that allowed people to network.
Our group coauthored six papers! That includes two collaborations on task organization and papers for Task 1 and Task 4. Here they are:
A paper on Data-Efficient Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification in the DCASE 2024 Challenge by Florian Schmid, Paul Primus, Toni Heittola, Annamaria Mesaros, Irene Martín-Morató, Khaled Koutini, and Gerhard Widmer
A paper on the DCASE 2024 Task 4: Sound Event Detection with Heterogeneous Data and Missing Labels, bySamuele Cornell, Janek Ebbers, Constance Douwes, Irene Martín-Morató, Manu Harju, Annamaria Mesaros, and Romain Serizel
A paper on the difficulty of annotating data lately: Does Paid Crowdsourcing Still Pay Off? Sifting Through Annotator Noise in Crowdsourced Audio Labels, by Manu Harju, Irene Martín-Morató, and Annamaria Mesaros
A paper on Guided Captioning of Audio by Irene Martín-Morató, James Afolaranmi, and Annamaria Mesaros, a work funded by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation project “Guided Captioning for Complex Acoustic Environments”
A paper on Audio Captioning in Finnish and English with Task-Dependent Output by Irene Martín-Morató, Manu Harju, and Annamaria Mesaros, also funded by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation project “Guided Captioning for Complex Acoustic Environments”
and, finally,
A paper on Acoustic Scene Classification Across Multiple Devices Through Incremental Learning of Device-Specific Domains by Manjunath Mulimani, and Annamaria Mesaros, funded by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation project “Continual learning of sounds with deep neural networks” that received the Best Paper Award!
On another positive note, the DCASE research area is still growing well, and the DCASE Challenge influences very strongly the research directions, with many published papers having in their title keywords from challenge tasks.
For 2025, DCASE Workshop goes to Barcelona!